Lighting fixture



April 23, 1929. G. w. BURTON LIGHTING FIXTL'JRE Filed April 8, 1927 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 23, 1929.

GEORGE BURTON, OF LARCHMON'I, NEW' YORK.

LIGHTING FIXTURE.

Application, filed April 8, 1927. Serial No. 181,931.

This invention relates generally to lightto transmit it to the other one forcrveq'eflecing fixtures and has more particularly reftion are provided, such means in the. present erence to the headlights used ,on an autoinstance taking the form of a mirror 7' and 9 mobile, although I wish it to be distinctly at the adjacent sides of the reflectors. It

5 understood that the invention is not limited will be understood that should one of the in its application to automobiles. sources of light fail, say (Z, then certain of r In the art, as heretofore practiced, it is the rays from'refiector 0 would be interceptthe custom to have two headlights on autoed by'niirror g and would be transmitted to mobiles, one adjacent each side thereof, mirror which in turn would illuminate .10 while on motor-c cles onl one headlight is reflector b andjthat this would be. done used. Drivers therefore frequently, and as without materially robbing 0 of its light; a matter of habit, interpret one light to that is Without destroying its function as a mean a motorcycle and two lights to mean headlight; Conversely, should light .0 fail an automobile. It not infrequently occurs, then certain of the rays from reflector b 15 however, that one of the headlights of an would be transmitted to reflector c. The automobile fails or becomes extinguished device can, of course, be made as elaborate thus giving the appearance of a motorcycle. as may be desired. For instance, a teleto a driver coming in the opposite direction. scoping tube it can be employed in which a This condition becomes particularly dangerniirrorsf andg can be-mounted and this 20 one if the left-hand headlight fails and has tube can, ifdesired, be provided with lenses resulted in the occurrence of a number of The object of this form ofthe invention accidents. is to enable a separate unitto be made which The main object and feature of this invencan be applied to existing cars with but tion is to provide means whereby if one slight labor.

25 headlight becomes extinguished the light I I claim: I i

source contained, Within the other may be 'A headlight equipment including two reused to illuminate both headlights. flectors, each having a light source, spaced The iigure isra diagrammatic view of the apart and facing in substantially the same front end of an automobile with. the 'headdirection, a telescoping tube independent of lights indicated embodying one form'of the the reflectors and located at their adjacent invention. 1 sides, and means carried by said tube to in the figure the reference numeral a indiintercept a portion of the light rays issuing cates the front end of an automobile. b and from either reflector and to transmit it to 0 indicate two reflectors here spaced apart the other reflector for re-reflection.

35 and facing in the same general direction, Signed at 233 Broadway, in the county of each reflector having a light source (Z and a. New York, and State of, New York, this Suitable means to intercept aportion of the 30th day of March, 1927. light rays issuing from one reflector and GEORGE W. BURTON. 

